“A Farm ‘Pluck’” by Howard Pyle (1878) “There are few more beautiful sights than a peach orchard in full bearing, the vistas between the ...

This afternoon I received a review copy of Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art by Jill P. May and Robert E. May, published by ...

“Paint your picture by means of the lights - imagine that you are bringing moving beings out of a gray chaos and not that you are drawing me...

“He is a comical little fellow, but quite the gentleman; he wears glasses, and being troubled with dyspepsia, has a habit of grinning in rat...

“An Interrupted Performance” by Howard Pyle (1878), engraved by Frederick Juengling (1880) Most of Howard Pyle’s works appeared in print ...

“The dim, shadowy forms of vessels riding at anchor in the night” by Howard Pyle (1889) If only. In the correspondence of Howard Pyle’s s...

The 1899 Drexel Institute Summer School of Illustration dining at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania* Howard Pyle’s taste in food has always fas...

“The Lily Lake” by Howard Pyle (1891) Howard Pyle isn’t known for his landscapes, but he did quite a few over the years, mostly to illustr...

“The art-student learns rules for doing things but all the rules in the world would never make a picture. “A great picture can only be mad...

“All eyes were turned to Abraham Davenport...” by Howard Pyle It’s always interesting - interesting to me, at least - to see great minds...

Howard Pyle was not above reworking a picture after publication. “The Burial of Braddock” is one example: after it appeared in Harper’s Mon...

"On sped the light chestnut, with the little officer bending almost to the saddle-bow" On this date 120 years ago - July 15, 18...

Howard Pyle photographed by J. R. Cummings in 1910 On his blog, James Gurney posted a reading he did from Henry Pitz’s The Brandywine Tra...

“In the Valley of the Shadows” by Howard Pyle (1902) Mr Pyle likes very much to have us watch him work and the other day we went up to hi...

William Henry Jackson, circa 1873 In his autobiography, Time Exposure , the celebrated photographer and artist William Henry Jackson (184...

The great illustrator Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821-1888) lived and worked in Delaware at the same time that Howard Pyle was coming of a...

In the early 1890s, when Howard Pyle was very much under the literary spell of his friend W. D. Howells , he wrote a handful of “realist” ...

“...to have a drawing accepted and published is a sure sign that the work is above the average. There is no better criterion of fundamental ...

Howard Pyle’s “We started to run back to the raft for our lives” from “Sindbad on Burrator” by A. T. Quiller Couch in Scribner's Magazi...

Figure 1. “Her whisper was so soft he only guessed the words“ from "The Stairway of Honor" by Maud Stepney Rawson in  Harper's...